Rebuilding a strong transatlantic partnership. Hello there welcome youre watching r. T. International where theres one story dominating today the u. S. President ial election much tighter than everybody was expecting and still no results so lets bring you what we know so far and bring you up to speed with the race is tight as you can see with biden already securing 238 electors and trump having the backing of 230 the magic number that they need is 270 that would get them into the white house and this is all down to what is called the Electoral College system in the United States because each state has a fixed number of electors based on the number of People Living there and whichever candidate secures a simple majority of votes in each state does win the only exceptions of maine and nebraska which are allocated electors based on local district. Heres what it looks like so far on a state by state basis many of my old. States from pennsylvania wisconsin michigan and georgia are still cou
People on board. The debate tonight in the u. S. Who is on the right side of history . Many democrats remain silent, showing no support for the protesters in iran as human rights watchdog groups repeatedly demand iranian leaders be charged with human rights abuses for torture, oppression and slaughter of it is own people. President trump showing solidarity with the iranian protesters. Tonight the former israeli ambassador to the u. S. , whether history will show the democrats and media silence on irans abuse of it its own people is a disgrace. Whether democrats remain silent deserve to be leaders of the worlds greatest democracy. Tonight President Trump moments ago hitting democrats hard tore attacking him for taking out the terrorist mastermind soleimani. Also tonight, new sound of nancy pelosi seemingly trying to downplay the protests in iran as democrat senator chris coons now concedes that President Trump has turned off the quote, terror money spigot created by obamas iran nuclear
Like from moscow where its just past 5 in the morning youre watching R T International welcome to the program. Now runs envoy to the u. N. Has said the country is not planning any more attacks against the u. S. As long as washington refrains from further aggression he also said tirant revenge for the death of its top general has been for felt after last nights missile strike on 2 u. S. Bases in iraq president responded to those strikes by promising new sanctions as we continue to evaluate options in response to a rain in aggression the United States will immediately impose additional punishing economic sanctions on the iranian regime. These powerful saying shoes will remain until or and changes its behavior. Will be reigning in operation was carried out in revenge for the u. S. Drone strike that killed Major General sunni money last week aunties kind of more than has more on tribes address to the nation. Its quite a different tone than weve heard from trump in the last few days folks w
People on board killed. Fish really launched the stream natural gas pipeline project will supply the turkish. With rushing. A welcome a new karen alongside myself neil harvey thanks for joining us here on r. T. International where we start this hour with breaking news because iran has fired dozens of Ballistic Missiles at u. S. Military bases in iraq the many militaries calling the move revenge for the death of its top general. Who was killed in a u. S. Drone strike last week. We want to go back to that it. Was. A missile strikes happened at exactly the same time of night as the assassination of solomon the 5 days earlier and the secretary of Irans Supreme National Security Council tweeted this image of the iranian flag as an apparent reference to trumps tweet of the u. S. Flag just after the drone strike that killed saloni the iranian president has laid out what revenge against the u. S. Would mean exactly. The revenge is to fuel america out of this region the real revenge and respons
But 1st the world is not the same since donald trump ordered the killing of iranian soldier caught some salami who along with his Iraqi Popular mobilization unit counterparts were drone strike on friday at Baghdad Airport joining me now from tel aviv is former israeli ambassador to the United States danny ayalon thanks so much about coming back on the show lets just begin with what you think your well indicted Prime Minister netanyahu meant when he said israel should not be dragged into what was an american event yes it was a totally american wholly owned american operation and i believe it came following the attack on the American Embassy in baghdad but basically i think the United States was fed up with the intervention of iran through. The Iranian Revolutionary guard and most of the. Force the ocas force which was headed by General Assembly money their responsibility was actually to subvert all over and. I would say make sure that the iranians. Get the influence all over the area an